The Birch Wathen Lenox School

The school community is celebrating the soon removal of the headmaster Frank. After many disastrous years, the school is broken and failing with enrollment plummeting. The school must bring in new leadership of quality to save itself from shutting down.

Words cannot describe the horrific experience I had here. Do they really expect people to pay that much? Terrible headmaster. The worst. They don’t care about you.

To even call this a school is a stretch. I've never been to a worse place in my life. People are judgmental, snobby, privileged and stuck-up. The majority of them have never gone through events in their lives, and as good as that might be for them it has consequently manifested in a lack of development of people skills. The gym i would say is on par for an inner-city middle school. If you're parents dont make more than $300,000 a parent, prepare to not be able to keep up with the majority of the student body. If you're a person of any middle class upbringing or background, i implore you to stay as far away from this place as possible. Currently regretting coming here every single day, and i am now a Junior. The past three years have been the worst of my life.

Although our children only attended the middle school, we found that we were not getting our money's worth. The children are out of control, and the school does nothing about it because then they would lose their tutition. The 7th Grade students were so out of control. The academic program was nothing special, the administration was on a power trip. My child was totally left out, bullied by the other children, and the admistration did absolutely nothing! Taking them out of BWL was the best thing that we could have done for our children's personal development and academic success.

If your child is not rich, privileged, and white this is not the school for you. BWL is the type of school where only one type of person can thrive, and the students, teachers and administration continue to perpetuate a toxic culture that teaches students to be self-centered, ignorant and tear each other down. Once BWL students enter the real world from their bubble of privilege, I am sure they are going to have a really hard time once they realize that everything is not going to be catered to them. Many of the students are clearly poorly raised, as many of them are rude, unaware, and offensive. There are maybe 5 black students in the entire school, and not many more latinx students. If you want your child to become a bright and kind individual who can take care of themselves, do not send them to BWL.

One of the worst experiences of my life attending BWL. The student body is stuck up, rude, and too worried about appearances to care about anything meaningful.